In the next few months, we'll be opening several Collegewise offices in the Boston area. And I'm excited to announce that we've just hired Tim Townley from Boston University to open and run one of them.
Who's Tim?
Tim got his start as an assistant director of admissions at his alma mater, George Washington University. He spent the last six years as an assistant director with Boston University's admissions office. And in between those roles, he spent a year as a college counselor at the American School in Switzerland. He's also finishing his masters in education at BU now. I'm not sure how he found the time to do it in between reading thousands of applications and adjusting to his role at home as a new father, but he did. Well done, Tim.
Why did we invite Tim to join us?
There's a scene in my favorite movie, Good Will Hunting, when Will first meets his new psychologist and says, "So, I read your book last night." I'm not going to lie–when Tim revealed in our first interview that he'd just finished my book, I was rooting for him. But that's not the (only) reason we hired him. I swear.
Tim doesn't just have a lot of experience–he's obviously taken the time to learn as much as he could in each of those roles. Through several rounds of interviews, he offered up some great insights into the admissions process, how to better advise students, and the role of admissions officers and counselors. He's got plenty of experience speaking in front of crowds, and managing the anxieties of both students and parents. He's an admissions geek like us who's spent his entire professional career learning as much as he can about the process. He never checked out and decided he knew all there was to know. That hunger to learn everything resonates with us. He even wore it well when Paul took him to task for being a Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots fan. He's going to fit in just fine.
Boston, here we come
My favorite part of this new Collegewise chapter with The Princeton Review is finding smart, talented, likeable people to help us open our new offices. We just found another one, and we're excited for Tim to start and to help us bring Collegewise to Boston.